Hey Liju!
That’s great to hear, I’ve heard many others telling me this too. It would
seem as though it’s scratching a common itch.
About your suggestion to run applications via be, this is what wrappers are
for, or Rez. Because an application can sometimes require such a heavily
specialised environment - with dependencies towards other applications for
example - beyond just knowing about show-specific metadata, it’s better
suited for a dedicated utility.
In the simplest sense, you can get what you ask through be with a slightly
alternative syntax.
$ be in spiderman myshot mytask
$ maya --action render
In which case maya is either exposed to your PATH or generated on the fly
with be. maya is in this case relative your project, and could either be a
bespoke wrapper script, or something that solves a Maya environment using
Rez.
For example, a maya wrapper could look something like this.
import osimport sysimport argparseimport subprocess
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--action")
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.action == "render":
os.environ["PATH"] = "/path/to/vray-plugin"
if args.action == "animation":
os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = "/path/to/animation-shelf"
sys.exit(subprocess.call("/path/to/maya"))
$be —app maya —action publish
Hm, not quite sure what to make of this action. What does it mean for Maya
to launch given the action “publish”?
@all, would it be possible to post a short shippet of the general layout of
the directory structure you are familiar with from work? I’m looking to
stress-test be to see whether there are necessary directory structures it
may have trouble handling.
For example, something like this would be great.
projects
├── spiderman
│ ├── assets
│ │ ├── peter
│ │ ├── mjay
│ │ │ ├── model
│ │ │ └── rig
│ │ └── harry
│ └── film
│ ├── seq01
│ ├── seq02
│ │ └── 1000
│ └── seq03
└── hulk
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